Cronkite Award Winners for TV Political Journalism Announced for 2013

The 2013 winners of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism have been announced by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The awards recognize distinguished work produced during the 2011-12 election cycle.

The organization notes: “This competition introduced a new category: the Cronkite/Jackson Prize for Fact Checking Political Messages, named for the founding director of FactCheck.org, Brooks Jackson, and selected by a special jury convened by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, home of FactCheck.org.”